Dhaka, June 24 -- The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has described the simultaneous resignation of 18 Jamaat-e-Islami-backed law officers from the Attorney General's Office as a "political stunt".

It also called on the attorney general to examine whether the officials carried out any acts of sabotage against state interests while serving in their posts over the past four months.

Speaking outside the Supreme Court Annex Building on Wednesday, BNP Legal Affairs Secretary M Badruddoza Badal said it had long been customary for attorneys general, additional attorneys general, deputy attorneys general and assistant attorneys general to step down voluntarily following a change in government.

He said it was "interesting" that those who res...